Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 05:16:08 :
Marin Independent Journal
Friday, June 7, 1985
BILL D. FRYE
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Parent-Sorensen Mortuary in Petaluma for Bill D. Frye of Petaluma, popular longtime bailiff in the Marin courts.
Mr. Frye, who was 45, died Thursday at Marin General Hospital, apparently of a heart attack.
He joined the Marin Sheriff’s Department in 1971 and was well known and like at the Hall of Justice.
“Everybody on the court floor is distraught,” Superior Court Judge Richard Breiner said. “He was just such a wonderful person. He was an outstanding bailiff, a kind person.”
“We treated him as a member of the family,” Breiner said.
Although Frye had served many years in the courtroom of former Superior Court judge Joseph G. Wilson, he and other bailiffs had served all the courts on a rotating basis in recent years.
“He was the epitome of professionalism,” Breiner said. “We always felt secure when he was in the courtroom. He just had a knack of handling the public, the litigants and the judges too.”
Sgt. Joe Fitzgerald who heads the court security division, said Mr. Frye had been assigned as a bailiff since his hiring and had served as the training officer for other bailiffs.
“He was a very good officer,” Fitzgerald said. “He will be missed.”
Mr. Frye, a longtime Petaluma resident, had worked as a correctional officer at San Quentin before joining t he sheriff’s department.
He was a veteran of the Marine Corps, where he had also worked in law enforcement and security.
Survivors include his wife, Joy Frye of Petaluma; a son, Martin Frye of Petaluma; a daughter, Jodi Frye of Petaluma; his mother, Zoe P. Kirk of Ukiah; a brother, Lawrence Frye, Sr. of Ukiah, and two sisters, Pauline Jones of Pacifica and Janet Cude of Houston, Texas.
Burial will be private at Cypress Hill Memorial Park in Petaluma.
Friends may call at Parent-Sorensen Mortuary after 10 a.m. Sunday.
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